Henri Delacour is just another struggling artist fresh from a messy breakup when he meets Apolline Lefèvre, rich, charming, and above all, beautiful, who wants her portrait done. He knows it will be the highlight of his career; he doesn't expect it to end in so much more...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholderbut the eyes only see what they're shown

She says I love you because the words are not for him to hear. She will whisper in his ear, brush his arm, kiss him, hug him, love him when the world is there to see and to be shocked. Then and only then.

3rd place in NeverGotHerLetter's Mumford & Sons challenge
Part I in the ScoRose Three Ways trilogy

Draco Malfoy, you are charged with organising the raid on Hogwarts school in the summer of 1996, the injuring of Katherine Bell and Ronald Weasley, the attempted murder of Albus Dumbledore, the use of the Unforgivable curses.

Teddy Lupin likes boys, and doesn’t really have a problem with it. What he does take issue with is his boy-who-is-supposed-to-be-more-than-a-friend spending a suspicious amount of time with a pretty redhead; his grandmother being hit on by their vicar; and Victoire Weasley, fresh from four years of fancy French schooling, who has decided to make his life hell.

By now, Scorpius should really have learnt to expect the unexpected. Despite this, he still finds himself surprised by the antics of his raving mad Quidditch team, the absurdity of his parents’ simultaneous midlife crises, and the fact that, contrary to all sense, logic and reason, he is head-over-heels in love with Rose Weasley. Oh well, let chaos reign...